Welcome!
I’m so glad you are here.
The world is on fire but our traditional systems of resolving conflict that permeate everything throughout so much of the world are adversarial and infused with patriarchy.
And it is killing us!
“The only way that we can move forward together as humans, says Antonio Guterrez, SG of the UN, “is to work together to collaborate with each other not to compete not to try to ward off other people not to try and create fortress economies not to try and pretend that our actions are not affecting other people all over the planet . . .”
I would go further to say that the negotiation and influencing processes we use need to be infused with the feminine.
What does that mean?
First, while many women today are very capable of competition, I believe women prefer collaboration and have many of the skills needed to do it well.
Good negotiation is about substance and relationship. These parallel ‘the masculine and the feminine’ in how we deal with our differences. There needs to be a balancing of the masculine and the feminine in our individual negotiations at home and at work, and in our global ‘negotiation’ between the genders on the planet.
This blog and my corresponding podcast explore how to do that. A more-feminine infused negotiation has the power to deepen democracy which is fundamental to a more peaceful and sustainable planet. As the climate-clock is ticking, time is of the essence for us, as women, to step into our collaborative leadership, the heart of which is a ‘New’ negotiation. This blog will aim to share the attitudes, knowledge and skill-sets we need for that.
Come join me!
What you will get by subscribing…
Every Thursday (sometimes Friday) you will get a post from me (and every fourth week a podcast).
The posts will focus on one aspect of negotiation and conflict mastery that will help you, help all of us, in our individual and collective existence here on our mother earth.
The conversation will range from the very personal, sometimes intimate, to the global.
To learn and develop just about anything requires Attitude, Knowledge and Skill. I will focus on aspects of all of these, a bit at a time.
Posts will be
—simple and brief
—inspiring (I hope)
—global and local
—practical and lofty both
—curating the best of feminine intelligence in how we negotiate and resolve conflict
Sample titles might be ---
• Collaborative Hardball
• Who Loads the Dishwasher
• Negotiation and Democracy
• Negotiation in the bedroom
For all subscribers, every new post will go directly into your email inbox, so you won’t miss a thing and can stay up-to-date.
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About the Peacebuilding Podcast: From Conflict to Common Ground…
In 2015, I launched The Peacebuilding Podcast: From Conflict to Common Ground. The idea was to focus on the processes that people/facilitators were using to intervene in complex systems to build consensus and create positive forward action together.
At the same time, I was going through my own transformation and, while always a feminist, I became even more of one and realized that the most impactful peacebuilding initiative we can undertake on the planet is to empower women and achieve true gender equality. This means a balancing of the masculine and feminine principles on the planet in all of our ‘systems’ — families, workplaces, schools. It also means healing ourselves of the toxic or hyper ends of the gender poles — the hyper-masculinity/patriarchy that is so pervasive and the codependency that is supporting it.
My new version of the podcast will focus on stories of how people are bringing feminine intelligence into all of our ‘systems’. Stay tuned.
